SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - May 2006

NOTE: Minutes posted on the wiki are always unofficial. Schedules for upcoming presentations are always tentative. (Some more tentative than others!)

Saint Louis Bread Company,
10550 Old Olive Street Road,
Creve Coeur, MO 63141 (at Old Olive and Olive)

• May 3, 2006
• 7:00 pm - 8:45 pm

• Lee Lammert
• Carl Fitch
• Craig Buchek
• Gary Meyer
• Stan Reichardt
• Barry Morrison

• Need to print out previous months' minutes for signature and inclusion in Secretary folder.
• Need to finish typing up minutes for March 3 board meeting and official annual meeting.

• Currently working on pulling in 2004 data into QuickBooks.
• We created some stationery. Carl got some samples from Rich Seibel.

• No books sold.
• No new books ordered this year.

March attendance figures:

12 - UNIX     - 17
20 - STL LUG  - 20 (22 head count)
25 - HZW LUG  - 7
26 - Security - 8
27 - STC LUG  - 9

• Base: Simple Redirection by Stan Reichardt
  • Very good. Could have gone longer.
• Main: Wireless Network Card Configurations (including ndiswrapper) by Carl Fitch
  • Very good. Covered a lot. Good show and tell.

• Main: Ruby on Rails by Jeff Barczewski
  • Amazing. Gave a great feel for how it works.

• Newbie topics
  • Simple Redirection by Stan Reichardt
    • Better than the first time.

• WiFi HackFest by Clarence Johnson
  • Lot of fun.

• Base: How To Use Linux by Fred Smith
  • Worked better the next time he gave it.
• Main: WordPress by Jim Roe
  • Good.

• Base: Sudo and not su by Stanford Baldwin
• Main: Attacking Web Applications by Mark Murdock and Scott Winter of Lantern Secure Solutions (via Ted)

• Main: GeeXboX / MythTV / HTPC by Mark Sims (Carl has reconfirmed date and location)

• Newbie topics

• Wireless Troubleshooting - Kismet & Other Diagnostic Tools

• Further Explorations with Ruby on Rails by Ed Howland

• Base: Master Boot Records by Carl Fitch
• Main: Secure Email by Dustin Anders and Paul Vinson of Slashmail (via Craig)

• Main: SUSE 10 by Matt Skipton of Novell (via Lee)

• TBD

• Newbie topics

• TBD

• Base: TBD
• Main: Novell SuSE in the Enterprise Space (LVL Tentative)

• Installing Linux from a Disk Image by Carl Fitch

• TBD

• TBD

• TBD

• Base: TBD
• Main: something by Scott Granneman (TENTATIVE, via Gary)

• Main: InkScape - Mark Jarnowski (TENTATIVE, via Craig)

• TBD

• TBD

• TBD

• Zimbra Collaboration Suite (Exchange "replacement") - Matthew Porter volunteered (October?)
• Perl Scripts to do DNA Genetic Research by Bryce Meyer from Wiltel/Level 3 (via Gary)
• OpenVPN by Robert Citek
• SELinux by Stan Reichardt
• MythTV / Freevo / TiVo - (STLLUG?) - (via Sarah on the Perl list)
• WiFi - Jerry @ OCI (via Gary)
• CVS/Subversion - Sanjiv, JT, Ed Howland
• Requests:
  • VPN (hands-on preferred, good for a Security meeting)
  • CVS/Subversion for Config Files
  • Oracle Application Express
  • How To Update Your System - apt, yum, yast, etc.
  • Music - Linux on iPod, iPod on Linux, Ogg, players, etc.

• Stan is looking to somehow automate the announcements.

• Lee working to send out invoices to previous sponsors. ($200)
• Clarence and Stan will start working to gather information about previous sponsors.
  • Starting with information from the web site.

• Presentation topics as far back as 1998 have been listed.
  • Stan indicated that accuracy is not high, but will search additional notes.
  • Stan and Ted will continue listing prior years' data as time permits.
• Stan working with Ted to get presentations put up.
  • Ted has gotten some of the older presentations gathered.
  • Ted's major emphasis will be to focus on getting the material from presenters.

• Mike Knight pointed out a configuration problem with our new servers.

• Configured SLUUG.ORG web site on new server.
  • Copied over all the data.
  • Configured a redirect back to old systems for user pages for short-term.
    • Will redirect to users.sluug.org, which can remain in place after the full migration.
    • This will allow us to move the web site without having to move the users.
  • Need to determine how to do the mailing list sign-up pages.
  • Need to determine how to proceed with non-SLUUG sites we host.
• Next step is to test the new site, before we point our production DNS there.
  • Make sure everything is there and working.
  • Make sure we copy over any updates from the old web site.
  • Make sure the redirect to user pages is working.
  • Make sure the SIG sites/pages work.
  • Get the mailing list sign-up pages to work.
• Craig is working on email infrastructure.
  • He made some progress, but is not quite finished.
  • Got some input on how to proceed from the others.
• We need some versa-rails to mount the servers.
  • Lee measured the depth of the rails - 28.5 inches front to back.
  • Need to be mounted on a Compaq 4U server.
• Craig has a 1U UltraSparc with Solaris 10 to donate and install at Primary.
• We could use a rackmount switch.
  • Carl has a 12-port rackmount hub he will donate.

• Missouri Exempt status - (Carl Fitch and Lee Lammert, with help from Fred Smith's wife)
  • Carl has the forms. Working to finish filling them out. Will hand them off to Lee.
  • Gary will take forms to Rich McClennan to get help answering some of the questions.

• See about O'Reilly bringing someone in to speak to our group(s).
  • Carl will follow up.

• Stan proposed we clean house, and send any excess inventory to WITS.

• Craig needs to work to write up new membership info.
  • See last month's minutes for full details.

• Gary sent email to reduce dial-up lines to 4.

• Lee found a dial-up service at Primary Networks for $120/year.
  • This could be a fall-back if we can no longer provide that service.
  • We need to re-assess cost of phone lines at the end of this year.

• None

• Stan will look into removing many of our email aliases.
  • Most of them only collect spam.
  • Craig suggested that we may need to set procmail to delete spam of a certain rating.

• Carl - Get abstract/bio from Mark Sims.
• Carl - Complete tax-exempt status paperwork.
• Carl - Follow up with O'Reilly about bringing someone in to speak to our group(s).
• Craig - Write up info on membership levels for web site and hand-outs.
• Craig - Get abstract/bio from Dustin Anders and Paul Vinson.
  • Tell them to spend at least half the time on client-side (PGP).
• Craig - Print out meeting minutes for inclusion in secretary folder.
• Craig - Continue working on new servers.
  • Recruit testers in preparation to move www.sluug.org site.
  • Complete email configuration.
• Lee - Get abstract/bio from Matt Skipton of Novell.
• Lee - Finish QB transfer & financials.
• Barry - Look into Webmin and Majordomo/Mailmain for new servers.
  • Need to be able to preserve the archives.
• Ted - Get abstract/bio from Mark Murdock and Scott Winter.
• Gary - Talk to people about presentations (see above).